Op-eds and Speeches

It’s Time for Congress to Pass Reaganesque Tax Reforms
Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX)
National Review
October 20, 2016
Thirty years ago this week President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, landmark legislation recognized as the most sweeping overhaul ...

My father's tragic death and Hillary Clinton's plan to tax the 1 percent
By Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD)
Fox News
October 2, 2016
You don’t forget moments like this – the ones that come so unexpectedly, shoving a pit into your stomach. I ...

We want to make tax filing so simple that ‘it would fit on a postcard’
Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX)
CNBC.com
July 19, 2016
People across the country are speaking out in 2016 – and their message is loud and it is ...

The GOP Plan for Tax Sanity
By Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Wall Street Journal
June 24, 2016
America’s tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won’t work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a ...

For 80 years, Social Security has been a promise hardworking, taxpaying Americans can trust — a promise that should they retire, become disabled, or die, a safety net would be there for them and their families. It's an important program on which many Americans rely after a lifetime of hard work.
And yet as Social Security turns 80, that promise is in serious ...

Fox News op-ed
The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a bill to establish what’s called trade promotion authority or TPA. The bill may not sound like a showstopper, but the vote has America’s allies—and ...

Wednesday's vote to repeal the unpopular health care law was, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, the end of the beginning of our push to make quality health care more affordable and accessible for all Americans. Full repeal of the Democrats' partisan health care law is critical to advancing fiscally responsible, patient-centered reforms that actually lower health care costs.